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Geoff Mulgan was described in an article in ''The Guardian'' as "the ultimate New Labourite" <ref>John Harris, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/may/26/thinktanks.labour The power of influence]", The Guardian, 26 May 2006, accessed 15 April 2009</ref>. He has been a key advisor to Tony Blair and was one of the founders of the think tank Demos which has close ties to New Labour.<ref>John Harris, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/may/26/thinktanks.labour The power of influence]", The Guardian, 26 May 2006, accessed 15 April 2009</ref> He was one of the key figures in the drive to 'modernise' left-wing politics. | Geoff Mulgan was described in an article in ''The Guardian'' as "the ultimate New Labourite" <ref>John Harris, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/may/26/thinktanks.labour The power of influence]", The Guardian, 26 May 2006, accessed 15 April 2009</ref>. He has been a key advisor to Tony Blair and was one of the founders of the think tank Demos which has close ties to New Labour.<ref>John Harris, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/may/26/thinktanks.labour The power of influence]", The Guardian, 26 May 2006, accessed 15 April 2009</ref> He was one of the key figures in the drive to 'modernise' left-wing politics. | ||
| − | In the 1980s Mulgan was | + | In the 1980s Mulgan was part of the [[Comedia]] consultancy<ref>"[http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page2697 Improving Public Services: The Delivery Unit]", Number10.co.uk, the website of the prime minister's office, accessed February 2009.<ref> which, (with [[Roger Liddle]]'s ''[[Pieda]]''), advised city administrations, spreading a politicised cultural 'redevelopment' purge of 'old-fashioned' left-wing people in positions of power in an effort to 'modernise'. From 1990-92 Mulgan was special adviser to [[Gordon Brown]] when he was shadowing the Department of Trade and Industry, and became 'the Clinton campaign's link to Labour, which involved lots of telephone calls with the Americans - mainly advising them how not to repeat our mistakes.'(Independent On Sunday 24 January 1993) |
Demos aimed to transpose the mishmash of ''[[Marxism Today]]'s'' 'fetishised' Thatcherism into Labour policy. Mulgan was part of a 1995 'secret committee' led by Mandelson 'to examine policy changes', which met with Blair on alternate Fridays. The group contained no MPs, preferring Roger Liddle and [[Derek Scott]] (both former SDP), [[Patricia Hewitt]] (not then an MP), and TV producer [[Michael Wills]]. Here Mandelson and Liddle urged Blair to use the SDP as a party model. (Guardian 15 July 1995) | Demos aimed to transpose the mishmash of ''[[Marxism Today]]'s'' 'fetishised' Thatcherism into Labour policy. Mulgan was part of a 1995 'secret committee' led by Mandelson 'to examine policy changes', which met with Blair on alternate Fridays. The group contained no MPs, preferring Roger Liddle and [[Derek Scott]] (both former SDP), [[Patricia Hewitt]] (not then an MP), and TV producer [[Michael Wills]]. Here Mandelson and Liddle urged Blair to use the SDP as a party model. (Guardian 15 July 1995) | ||
Revision as of 18:48, 5 February 2009
Geoff Mulgan initially worked at the Greater London Council. He was a 1986-87 Harkness Fellow (which reinforces Anglo-American links) at MIT. He was co-founder and director of the London based think tank Demos from 1993-98.[1] Mulgan's CV on the Demos website[2] does not mention that he joined the British American Project (BAP) in 1996.[3]
Background
Geoff Mulgan was described in an article in The Guardian as "the ultimate New Labourite" [4]. He has been a key advisor to Tony Blair and was one of the founders of the think tank Demos which has close ties to New Labour.[5] He was one of the key figures in the drive to 'modernise' left-wing politics.
In the 1980s Mulgan was part of the Comedia consultancyCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
A semior fellow of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government - which is run by another former Demos director Tom Bentley[6]
A member of the controversial British American Project[7]
previously he:
Worked for the greater London Council
Worked for Comedia
1990 - 1992 - Special Advisor to Gordon Brown who was then in the shadow cabinet
1993 - Co Founder of think tank Demos and its first director
1997 - Worked for the U.K government in various roles including as head of the policy unit in the Prime Ministers office[8]
Books
- Good and Bad Power: the ideals and betrayals of government (Penguin, 2006
- Connexity (Harvard Business Press and Jonathon Cape, 1998)
- Saturday Night or Sunday Morning (Comedia, 1987)
- Communication and Control: Networks and the New Economies of Communication (Blackwells, 1991)
- Politics in an Antipolitical Age (Polity, 1994)
- Life After Politics (Harper Collins, 1997
Notes
- ↑ "Geoff Mulgan - England", World-Wide Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ "Geoff Mulgan", Demos website, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ Andy Beckett, "Friends in high places", The Guardian, 6 November 2004, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ John Harris, "The power of influence", The Guardian, 26 May 2006, accessed 15 April 2009
- ↑ John Harris, "The power of influence", The Guardian, 26 May 2006, accessed 15 April 2009
- ↑ http://www.anzsog.edu.au/staff/staff.php Accessed 15 April 2007
- ↑ Andy Beckett Guardian 6/11/04 [1] Accessed 13 April 2008
- ↑ [2] Accessed 15 April 2008
